Dan Mohler - Kingsway Church 2015 (PART FIVE)

we spend enough time crying for wrong reasons and we could cry for joy crying overwhelmed but when them kids walked up here a lost people are so valuable to Jesus that he believes they're worth his blood in his life the cross isn't some Easter story that we get conscious of a suffering Savior wants to eat or sell it's sin cursed in the flesh it's sin removed from humanity it's it's it's new life through Jesus Christ when them kids walked up here man I got ripped I got I got shifted it was with him God moments for me he so I can't apologize for this I can't do anything about it these kids are so valuable to go and this is what started to happen to me I saw their innocence I solved from the little to the oldest ones and and in life did it to all of us at some level it starts chipping away at your innocence and you start learning who you are along the way but it's not who you are are you with me no sudden life teaches you who you are instead of truth and your feelings and emotions start getting trained by all that stuff instead of truth this is what I heard in the Lord and I want you to hold on to your seat tight if you have to this isn't heavy and condemning this is honor and privilege our lives get to be a living epistle in front of others our lives are a living testimony if we get trapped in just making it about us getting through and getting a fair shake and a better break we're going to miss the value of the impression that we can leave in the hearts of people especially the children please hear me I'm not here to overwhelm you this morning my heart got overwhelmed Jesus loves the little children everybody has destiny and he loves us just the same but I'm telling you there's a way to protect and preserve innocence there's a way for us to mark hearts of kids and people to be that person in their life they never forget that when they feel like they might be making a borderline decision the thin you marked in their heart brings them back to true the place where they're discouraged where they feel like no one loves them and all of a sudden your face comes through their mind from 15 years ago and they can't deny the character you walked in etc the moment they get in a situation where somebody's playing the hypocrite and they say you know what nobody's sincere nobody's this and all of a sudden they can't even go there because they've had us in their lives come on I hope you're hearing me this thing isn't about just getting through this thing isn't about getting a fair shake guys this thing isn't getting about getting dealt a better hand it's about you selling out and surrendering and leaving the most incredible message in the hearts of everyone around you that could possibly be sent it's about integrity and honoring characters it's not about perfection you say Dan I can't live that way I have weaknesses man stop focusing on your weaknesses and start giving God thanks for the strength that he's putting in your life the way he's changing your heart and increasing your character stop being afraid to fail and start stepping out in faith and believing Christ in you will show up listen man we we could touch our children wrong it's not the end of the world I'm not saying it's cool I don't ever want to touch my children wrong do you no but if you're not careful and don't understand what I'm crying out here this morning you can let your heart even get dull and hard and say oh well we all make mistakes oh well we're not perfect and never faced what it's creating and what it's doing in our own homes and still just come to church and have a blast there's a place to preserve and protect what God has in store there's a place to Stuart what God is doing there's a place for us in our homes when we have the conviction that man I was a little too aggressive there man I think I expressed too much passion to my boy man I think I got frustrated with my daughter and I just ran out of what it's called love and patience and I just touched her in the flesh man it's it's not the end of the world the greatest thing we can do for one another is teach integrity repentance and change sit down with them and say listen man you know what mommy with all my heart daddy with all my heart I never want to touch you wrong and and what you did deserved and and and and and caused a response there's something I need to talk to you about with what you did cuz you're more than that and you start to share that I I'm not regretting I'm not changing my mind about correcting you that was in place but where I came from was never what you deserve and I want you to know that it's not normal and it's not my heart and I don't ever want you to teach me to teach that to you and I don't want to be ever the reason that you ever lived that way because you see that in me I'm letting you and tears are pouring down your face now and your little girls crying and leaning on you because they see the honor and the love of your heart and humility and repentance in the faith and all of a sudden you teach your children how to walk in love and walk in integrity and take account for their own lives and responsibility for their accidents and never get trapped in blame-shifting or arrogance or hey well they shoulda did that to me well look I wouldn't feel the Swift then you look why are you talking to me they started it anyway why aren't you talking to them come on that stuff I promise you that stuff doesn't ever have to be in any one of our lives ever don't try to sell me well we all have our days you have them cuz you have a runway for them you believe that so you're positioned for that and when it happens there's no way to repent because that's who we are and it's not true you're not gonna sell me that Jesus paid too great of a price for me to sell that cheap there's something about character and integrity that he wants us to so walk in so we can Stewart the great plans that he has for our lives and our communities and stuff there's something going on here we talked about it Jason and I have talked about it it's this birthing thing and God and all this vision you guys have the people that you have been surrounded with that are running with something you are you're you're partnering together it's the most beautiful thing to watch it makes me want to cry I'm just so proud of you guys like you guys are completely surrendered to one another in what God wants to do and you we believe it like you're not just finding identity through serving getting accolade and rub on the shoulder brother you're awesome good come on so now you're going to serve all the more because you'll get to awesomes and then when you don't get awesome you're offended and wonder if people appreciate in the way you're spending time to land on your life for everybody and then you're called on the thing it's called church division and it's lies and it's from hell what I see here is from heaven and it humbles my heart when I come here you guys amazing kids came up here I'm telling you I just want I just I just believe the Lord is wanting to raise the standard of something in our lives that each one of us listening this morning takes account and responsibility for their own heart not in works not in condemnation in faith in grace and relationship getting unveiled and open before God and dealing with those things in their heart and you say yeah but my kids just get under my skin I'm talking about getting new skin I'm not talking about praying for your kids to change until about you getting new skin so that you can have the honor of being a part of your kids changing because of the honor they see in you because of the love and the goodness that leads to repentance come on I'm talking to every single person in here we all have destiny we all have legacy we all have potential everybody in here has created value everyone in here is the will of God there's a time to be born and you're alive come on that simple five hundred million sperm cells race into one egg and it was you don't don't tell me you're insignificant you're not won in millions you're one of millions those other millions went somewhere they didn't have the destiny you were called out you had a destiny so when two things connected it was you if it was any other two things or one thing and any other of those things it was it wasn't you but it was you it's not just so you have a life it's not to show you experience life it's not so you find the right person sometime and have a few kids and a good IRA and then pass down an inheritance even to your grandchildren it's that's awesome do that that's not why you're here you're here to manifest him make him seen and known you're here to walk in his image you're here to model love it's the only reason man is alive if you believe the Bible you're not alive just survive you're not alive to pay off your home go ahead and pay off your home I hope you do your life to laugh it's the only reason you're alive is to be like him not alive to have a doctrine your lives to have a transformed life we're not a Christian to have certain beliefs structures and systems yes we have them understand that's not our goal to to write a sheet out of our belief systems our goal is to shine come on guys I'm calling everyone in this room into a stewardship and an accountability of their own heart and you'd be the best steward of your god-given gift of a life that you've ever been in your life don't you self so cheap to say well I would be in a different place that it wasn't for so-and-so well you don't know what I've been through listen so-and-so and what you've been through is not King Jesus so stop letting that govern your life see this is what I'm talking about because when you say that you're so deceived you think you know what you're saying but you're deceived it's the way that seems right but it produces no life and it keeps you justified in the flesh with no hope of change until your perspective shifts and if you're not careful you'll get hype Oh spirits when just sit and wait for the magic day of deliverance deliverance comes when you see different deliverance comes when you position your life in agreement with what you see are you following me come on man this thing is passionate in me right now we can be living examples in epistles in 2nd Peter or 2nd Timothy Paul's talking about committing discussable to faithful men and who will carry it out and and multiply it and it's all good and he talks about the farmer and things and he says therefore because of this truth that he just wrote he said I endure all things I endure all things for the sake of and you would think he'd say for the sake of Christ because it just sounds spiritual and right I endure all things for the sake of the Lord it just sounds right he doesn't say that he says I endure all things for the sake of the elect you know what he's saying what I'm going through I never let change what I'm writing about what I'm going through I never let change in the sight of the people I'm fathering what's happening to me through persecutions and judgments and whips and chains and prisons like I endure it all for the sake of the message I'm sending to the heart of the people I'm pouring into my life is a living example matters that much to me that I endure all things for the sake of you come on that is love that's not well yeah but I'm having a hard ride you need to pray for me yeah but no wonder I'm discouraged wonder if you were in my shoes man I'm talking about challenging that from now on and never letting that be your resume even if it's your temptation because here's the deal Jesus didn't teach us that mindset or language life did not the giver of life come on we were taught from the time we were born by the spirit of this age and by the wisdom of the world we were taught with false teaching mindsets and mentalities from the time we were little enough to remember do you agree with that do you believe that come on we were homeschooled wrong home we all got like a master's degree in the flesh so what do you do crucify and you don't walk according to it you live according to the spirit okay it's good just giving you your scriptures man I love you guys I'm not spanking anybody I'm saying man we have something so honorable in front of us we are called something so glorious so beautiful it's called living a selfless life for the sake of his name in the name of love it does no harm nobody read your Bible love doesn't do any harm to anybody it's so sensitive to the people around it that even if you have a higher faith in something you won't do something that stumbles your brother in arrogance and spirituai and say oh well you just need to grow up and get some faith brother you just need to get free that's not love that's presumption and that just reveals you really don't know Jesus as much as you're proclaiming look your Bible in my Bible says if you don't love you don't know him it doesn't say you don't see your need for a savior and didn't get forgiven over sin and weren't sincerely repenting got born again in the sense of your name in the book of life and you understand he's the savior and you love him for the sacrifice and you believe that he's forgiven you of sin but if you don't understand you're created to become loved and you haven't surrendered your emotions your heart your motives your mindsets to him but they'll never get renewed and restored and saved you get it and all the sudden you really don't know him because you don't love because knowing him changes you into who he is and he is love and love is perfected in this that in the day of judgement we have boldness Putin's there's people going to be rot running and hiding hoping the rocks and trees fall on them and cover them from his presence in that day we have boldness why would we have boldness because as he is the whole chapter he is love he is love first John four he is look because as he is so are we in this world now I know this sounds a little intense in some rooms wouldn't be able to intense it sounds it sounds judgmental condemning to certain ears you won't hear it this way listen my attitudes my expression to you and to one another in our relationships is hugely important look attitudes are a dime a dozen there this is competent at you well I don't think well well I don't feel okay huh who is that that's just the need for redemption I'm posting that stuff look James 3 says who's wise who is wise James 3 it's 13 who is wise and understanding among you who really knows what they're talking about who gets it that's what it remains who's wise an understatement it's it will let them reveal it not by the words their sermon of their message but let it be revealed by the good conduct of their life that their works are done in the meekness of wisdom you'll study that out that's fine watch but if you have self-seeking or ND in your heart don't boast and lie against the truth what's she talking about that's not a mean scripture that's a loving father in Scripture he said look if you know the self-centered tendency in you that's causing you to be angry frustrated willful wanton whatever man stop appearing to be something get a grip on your heart get before the Lord let the Holy Spirit minister that thing surrender it get before him don't boast lie against the truth if you have that in you deal with it that's what he's saying he says he says because we're these things to see selfishness listen we were trained by it we were born into it it's all about me be honest every one of us was in that rat race trying to find our self along the way it was all them look what love does what's love do loved lays down its life for what another guess what selfishness does lives at the expense of another how many times we been needy how many times have we used our friendships through high school through young ages how many times have we drawn things from one another just to get what we could get from them to feel steady secure SWAT to two young people come together and they're just starry-eyed and all sloppy it up and although I just love you love you the greatest thing ever couldn't live without you world and and and and and then all of a sudden one of them just walks off stoic has unfazed and just goes on in life and the other one can't even function do you ever see that scenario yeah and we call it soul ties and and we call it falling out of love and we call a lot of crazy stuff it's just needs Driven Life it's people that aren't complete and fulfilled in Christ trying to make it happen with one another I'm just talking plain your life is hidden in Christ you can't even find out who you are apart from him you're created in him and through him and by him it's all about him but it's all about him in you so you're a very important intricate part of this whole picture you're worth this blood your redemption is a deal with him Masterson is when you're his home he doesn't want to move in so you feel good he wants to move in so you look like him a selfless understanding totally gets excited and wants that and to pursue that not in the name of perfection who knows that who who who wants to live in perfection who would love to just never missing man I'm up both my hands are up people think I'm afraid of that conversation that sounds like blasphemy we can't listen the reason we walk so far from it sometimes it's because we so believe we're imperfect be complete as your father in heaven is complete be perfect as your father you want to realize that the same spirit the race question the dead lives in you and God's telling you it's possible to walk out his love and live from his nature and live from his motives and live from his perspective and live from his wisdom I'm not selling that short I'm gonna go after it and if I stumble into weakness and I see the old man in the flesh that I know I've true supplied in my heart but yet somehow he pops up I run to God and separate myself from and I don't get in damn door I don't change my theology I don't say well see we're never perfect Father that is so not who you created me to be there's a greater testimony of who you are in me to manifest I thank you I'm never condemned in your presence but I am so stirred to walk in the fullness of who you are thank you I'm not striving I'm in your rest and you are changing me the light that's in my life is amazing God there was a time in my life I wouldn't thought anything of that but I so see that that is not who you are in me and I thank you for changing me making me wiser sharper and I thank you for shining through me and touching the hearts of men thank you for being a father unto me come on guys I'm not challenged here I'm not condemning you I'm not judging you I'm not sure how many people even think that way let alone commune with God that way and that's why I'm teaching that all the time this kind of stuff all the time so reflection on this house no reflection on teaching you how these guys are incredible what I'm saying is that kind of intimacy that kind of thinking I've found is lacking among us we're doing good deeds were doing good works but we run just as much a risk of getting frustrated and offended or hurt or taken back in the process and a lot of things God has has wanted to stir and do have got quenched by our own lack of understanding even though our hearts were good are you following me I'm not talking to hypocrites this morning I'm not talking to evil people talking to the children of God I'm talking to people to have destiny that God's giving you the honor to walk in love I've said this for years it takes one person in a household one person to understand the unconditional love of God to hold the fabric of that home together it takes two to tango it takes two to fight it takes one to pursue peace come on be challenged by what I'm saying he said yeah but she yeah but he see that's the world he said she said that's a talk show nobody wins you have a victim you have a villain you don't have Jesus Redemption and reconciliation you don't have love that covers multitude of sin you have judgment and you should enough and how could you and no wonder they come on Jesus didn't teach us to think like that Jesus showed us how to think through his life and King Jesus said you come and follow me he said you deny yourself he didn't say fight with your spouse he said deny yourself sometimes you have to yield bear with one another sometimes you show mercy sometimes you just understand sometimes you just realize man they really don't understand what they're doing and then this low voice says hello they understand what they're doing they're just doing that to get on your nerves they're just playing you again they're just trying to control you you don't need to be anybody's doormat you wouldn't even even take that you're just too passive I wonder where that language is coming from yeah could you see God the Father before the foundation world thinking about sending his son right he's going to slain before the foundation of the world implanted and all the sudden so voice comes to him yeah maybe it did maybe that's what did that was walk in the earth in America right I don't know if I do it Lord you know they're gonna hurt your heart you know they're gonna break your man you know they're gonna keep your heart on a yo-yo string they're gonna say one thing and do another I mean look ahead you see all things from beginning to end people named faithful man I don't know why you do the extremes to give your whole life for them when they're just gonna do your wrong they're gonna turn they're gonna say one thing and do another you know their lips are gonna praise you in the hearts gonna be far from you huh hear me you're gonna split the sea you're gonna deliver on with some Pharaohs bondage and they're just gonna say what about us what about us they're gonna curse you you know that God why would you want to put yourself through that man it's good you don't slumber because I don't know how you'd sleep come on man that voice comes to people all the time and they sit and they dwell on their thing and next thing you know they have a language going in a conversation in a rock-solid case that's not the Lord because it's not producing his love it's producing rightness wrongness justification vengeance human rights I confused me for a long time it's troubling because confusion is not of God it's confused me how were the people of God who have denied ourselves to follow him and we have so many rights that people can trot on that's where I need to meet with you okay listen you need to deal with my husband what do you mean well I just can't take any more see that sounds rational to almost every Christian in conversation because the people they're talking to you feel that way too about things so you have no position to even counsel when part anything because you're just going to give them the pain you understand but Jesus wouldn't talk to he wouldn't just say oh okay I'll deal with him I'm sorry you had to go through that we'll try to set him straight they'll try to hang on and endure I'll try to work it out could you imagine Jesus talking like that he'd look right in your eyes and say okay so what's he have to do with your well-being I thought I was your king and why are you letting him decide who you are today and why are you letting him be your excuse to live less than me when I'm in you and I'm greater than that so listen I understand it would be a great that he could change but I'm concerned why your heart can't cry for him why it's only crying because of him I wish your heart would cry for him because man I've cried for him because we're sins abound grace is abounding more and I've been wooing him do you understand but wooing him in his sleep do you even understand that I've been speaking him through the day and convictions and he feels like it's fighting it a little but I'm gonna break through coz my love never fails come in agreement and love him like I do you don't have as much trouble as you think I was going to be bold and strong this morning if it's about you if it's about you then you got lots of problems you got a lot of trouble if it's about him and Christ in you and leaving a legacy and mark in history and marking the hearts of men with a life lived you don't have problems listen man sometimes it feels like I'm exploiting a little but my wife is amazing so qualified my wife is as thoughtful I just said it to her the other nights that you were the most thoughtful you're amazing wife you're the most thoughtful sensitive she can hear me talking to a friend on the phone in another room and he's saying something he just ate and I'll say man that sounds good I didn't have that for a long time wow that's awesome man I didn't I don't think I eat that for a year or two and then she'll hear me and she'll say what we talked about woohoo we trusted so-and-so all yeah he was eating this and that she'll have it on the table that night that night she hears that I need something of her she'll grab her purse slip out the get in the car and go get it and have it on the table before I'm off the phone she just wants to it's like she's amazing but there was a season where she went into identity crisis way back and she believed she believed that nobody really cared about her valued her she actually believed which is a deception you're not looking to be valued by people see when you know who you are in question you have relationship with God yeah we were this wonderful gospel of Jesus your identity gets set in him and you don't need to question people's motives towards you you're complete in him so even if they're touching you in sincere you can't be touched in sincere because you're not looking to be touched look do you think it's possible for me to wake up this morning and have no one on the earth in my mind in position to owe me anything do you believe it's possible or do you believe that's just hypo spiritual preaching or do you believe it's Scripture and gospel come on nobody owes me anything and I owe no man anything except to love them and never lose sight of who they are no matter how they're living because that's what God did for me and that's why his spirits in me because the crowd lost sight of who I was why I wasn't living in him I wouldn't be standing here in him he'd be waiting for me to change come on guys this is a big deal this love thing is is is the biggest deal of all and now I'm just seeing it I remember it was on the door live live to love what would she call this weekend it just it's it's on me right now this morning Sunday morning look I'm not trying to be weird about this I'm humbled by what you got going on around here Jason I'm humbled by your heart the gifts you have in the Grace and all that God your heart is full of vision and it's not fairytale it's coming to pass and it's coming to pass and when you it's rock solid and it's just so so matter-of-fact when he's sharing it it's like I just want to hug even cut him off and hug him over and over and then I walk in here and I find the people that have Co labored and partnered with God it's overwhelming so why would I talk like this because of that great foundation and the thing that gods up to we don't just want to be a part of it we want to be it come on it's you don't want to come yeah this is not condemning guys guard your heart when I'm talking like this this is just family stuff you don't want to come and worship and get enthralled in the song and the music and thankfulness and be sincere and then not guard your heart in your family life in your home and your parenting in being a son or a daughter to your parents you don't you don't want to live in something less than Christ and let it be okay and all your conscience and teach yourself religion and stay far from intimacy and love you don't want things to become a movement what God's doing here is not a movement it's just it's Christie it's Jesus Jesus sent us it's the Christian life it's heaven on earth it's not a movement what the church does is wooden thing over Kingsway what a movement and we call it a movement then what happens is you attract everybody that has no identity and they come to be a part of a movement because they find themselves in the movement instead of in him and then the movement changes and usually stifles it's not a movement if the life lived you can have it whether you're at Kingsway or not you can walk in love wherever you are you say yeah you don't know about my family see no you don't know Jesus like you're singing because he said if you don't love you don't know him the barometer of knowing him it's not Christian t-shirts ring tones and screensavers the evidence of knowing him is a life left in the wisdom of meekness without self centered focus listen here's how simple is people say well you can never live and not get offended and angry and frustrated things are going to get you now and then love doesn't think for itself it thinks for the kingdom it thinks for you and loves willing to pay whatever price to bring the best out in you because it sees you potential soda skits once you get behind you and support you and believe the best and that person fails twice and then a voice says well they're not gonna run the race well you gotta be careful man you might be throwing your pearls to swine they might not even really wanna I've heard all this stuff in the church manatee all right man if Jesus saw me and you like we tend to hash this stuff out in conversation we'd be in trouble on your darkest day friend on your darkest day what's this on your most willful intentional darkest day the father sat there unmoved by your sin and in the stead fashioned that this heart said I know who you are and one day you'll see I'll never stop loving you I created you with destiny and I'm gonna lure and bring you to my arms come on love sees right through that deception and guess what comes before the Father over and over forgive them father they know not what they do it didn't say can you believe they're doing this to me go Barabbas what an insult the straw that almost broke my back God Barabbas after all I've done they're gonna let him go and say crucify me I've done nothing but good I've healed their sick I've opened the prison doors I fed them by the thousands and I'm hanging here and Barabbas is going free that's the whole point misty Edward song what does love look like you can't even listen to it when you understand what I'm free you just sit there your mushball what does love look like and that's slowing they're hanging on a tree looking at him looking at me looking at him looking through me forgive them father you say well I think they know what they're doing their antennas on yeah look if they really knew they wouldn't be in darkness if they really know I understand they know the sin they're committing I understand the intentional wrongs people do sometime but if they really had a revelation or preaching those things would have power in their heart that's the point do you agree so why doesn't love just keep on loving listen your testimony and your example to children until one another is priceless not for your resume to strengthen their heart so they can run amen okay I want you to see this I'm gonna read this I got two little scriptures what time what time no no we got we got you got chilly and all that yeah you're funny you don't ask Jason what time okay this is awesome Galatians five it's what I heard in the Lord to go to I I haven't preached Galatians five for a while a long time I can tell you last time I actually preached it from a pulpit and it's not listen a sermon like this isn't because you guys are bad kids it's because God is making a drawl on the destiny that has for all of us and he has us position to fill this walk walk this thing out and fulfill this thing he's got everything I'm looking and he's got people in place he's got you've got an awesome grace upon this place man and and God wants it to be so squeaky crackly clean listen this isn't weird when these kids are up here I'm looking and it's not condemnation I'm looking and it's not overbearing I'm thinking of a matthew scripture that says man if one causes one of these little ones to sin it'd be better they have a millstone Caston seen it never never be born and I'm like God takes innocence serious he values people and can you imagine see there's people that hurt children there's people that but I'm not talking about that right now I'm talking about just living apart from Christ's likeness in their presence and accepting it that's what I'm talking about look if you bring your kids to church and don't pursue Christ's likeness in your home without realizing it you're teaching your children that church attendance is Christianity that everybody's this way when it rubber meets the road but let's go to church and honor God and one day go to heaven that's impersonal and it's not transforming yeah and if we can love here we ought to be able to love there huh in fact we ought to be loving here because we love there when she agree come on guys it's not cool to have animosity towards one another it's not cool to just argue in your home and not think about it look if it happens it's not the end of the world you have an advocate Jesus the righteous that's not an excuse or so that it happens again it's just a it's a sobering it's a Wow God you don't hate me you're not cutting me off you're not judging me but we sure got my attention this was unacceptable I never talked to her that way god I'm still thinking of myself in that conversation god I gotta go make it right thank you for just fathering me and then you go find your wife and you sit down with her and you make peace immediately don't sit and be right don't call a friend and tell him the story so he gives you strength in the flesh come on I'm being real this stuff's real listen if we do all the fun things I watched us do all weekend and this what I'm saying we've missed the whole point and we don't have what we think we have and that's not to mean is that okay this is real man what you see is what you get we don't want religion come on the world is not attracted to church function we try to get more creative and keep update and get all the stuff if you're not careful that's not what you guys do what I'm saying is there's places that are just trying to make the setting attractive what makes it attractive is the heart of God the nature of Jesus it's it's not the height it's not the updated stuff it's not it's not taken the world and paint it Christian it's love in the flesh it's the genuine look cuz see people will come to this house in need of love but the message is clear so they'll make the transition into becoming love and the last one remember the day they walked in and needed love because you don't want to hang there too long because you know what you do you're grinning your chest atmospheres you're needy you're green you look for attention you get in front of somebody that you hope notices you and make sure you cry when you're five feet away and you set yourself up to be devastated if in an innocent way they don't see you you'll think they ignored you or don't love you because you're needing your needs driven and then you leave with an impression wow this church isn't loving I went they're broken and nobody discerned my need do you know how many people have got deceived on that track do you know how many people go to churches and do that stuff and how many people float in and out of sessions and stuff and then they talk to their friends about their experience and then their friends don't have the strength to get that out of their soul so when they hear the name of that gathering that's what they remember what they were told come on if we sell out that easy we're just toast you don't come here to be loved you come here because you are loved and you want to celebrate that together and because you are loved you love and no one will ever not be loved because here's the tragedy you leave a church and say boy that wasn't a loving Church and you're a Christian we're not one the loving Church so so and so didn't even notice me so and so didn't even not try to get her attention I tried to talk him they might not have saw you I had a family here today that was sitting waiting to talk to me we walked we walked away from him I didn't realize they were when I got to the top of steps I thought I wonder if they were waiting too and I looked down and I said hey girls and they didn't say can we see you minute week and we need to leave we got to get on the road but we wanted to say bye they didn't say that they just were being courteous and they just - but if they had that kind of weakness then I go over they could see man here we drove all this way we just wanted to say goodbye and we're sitting here we come walking down and he walked away from us and went upstairs come on that stuff happens all the time it would never happen if you're in relationship and fellowship with God and have intimacy with Jesus how's that for a challenge watch that would never happen never so when it happens it reveals one thing we don't know him like we sing and he's calling us in to him what Jeff was saying about people getting wigged out by intimacy in these songs see that's a strategy and a device to keep people from him because you don't unless you have intimacy you don't take on that thing you take on what's your intimate with you you become one he talks about a harlot and a person in that way and not sitting against her body think about spiritually you coming in with God and your jaw and then who he is becomes more and more of who you are intimacy and all of a sudden you've been with him I was telling Jason this morning how my buddy Todd took I gave him a three-month window and-and-and-and and it just brought him in the neck ministries and and compensated him the best I could to pay things and and told him to quit his job because I saw God was going to do something beautiful in his life I said you need to be ready and he said well what am I going to do for neck ministries I said I'm giving you three I didn't say three months I said I'm just giving you time to be with Jesus he said what I said you go be with Jesus he's huh I said I want you to do anything for neck ministries I said I want you thinking finances you Jackie runs a hotel go get an empty room and just be with him for three months 6 8 10 hours a day a guitar in a Bible in a closed door I can't even explain to you and put into words how he grew and matured and found wisdom in about a 30 day period he didn't even look like the same man even though before he was moving in gifts and zealous and cried all the time he was changed I can't explain it not through conferences not through mentoring not to listen to the teaching tapes I'm not against any of that it's intimacy in fact watch this if you don't have an intimacy don't do all that other stuff it's taking the place of intimacy get intimacy and then those things will be healthy you know it's not it's not cool oh I listen to you all the time dan I listen to all the time I understand what you're saying in your touching man I listen to you even while I'm in bed I end up falling asleep with you preaching I would rather you fall asleep in his presence with communion and fellowship and take what I'm saying and let it inspire you into him so shut me off before you fall asleep and then just say lord I thank you what this man sans bearing witness to my heart you really see me that way you absolutely and all of a sudden you're being ravaged by the presence of God yeah it's more than kisses huh its fullness yeah we can't explain it it's fullness it's complete like no lack no need fool do you imagine what relationship would look like when a young man and woman come together out of the fullness and strength of Christ in their life and not the need and while she looks hot and hey I'm not getting any younger oh my god she really likes me I can't believe she wants to go out with me me and I want to go out with her and how many of those scenarios that look cool in the beginning turned into heartbreak hurt we got a minister them through and she you know it turns in into me sexuality next thing you know with four people and you sure this man we were going to marry two years ago it's needs driven I'm gonna make a strong statement in your house there's no way that can happen when you're in Union and communion with him daily no way I don't you can write me any letter you want I don't even have openness to listen there's no way when you're in him you want me to prove it unless you don't believe the Bible this won't prove it I say then walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh it doesn't say sometimes and floating in and out it says hey walk in the spirit but realize you're not perfect and everybody's gonna take humanity now and then but walk in the spirit no it doesn't say that it says walk in the spirit and you what it's it's it's Galatians 5:26 or 16 it says walk in the spirit and you will not shall not fulfill the lusts of for the flesh he's talking about that you rent degenerate nature that thing that we were trained by Xterra jason quoted man 8 - 8 - well there is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus who don't walk according to the flesh and well that's my problem well that's why I feel condemned because I've been living in the flesh so living the flesh doesn't mean to commit sin it means to live in your own and that's in that verse to live in your own strength and ingenuity and your own ability to stand right in the sight of God there's no condemnation when your hearts sincere and you're depending on him even if you slip you're not looking to slip and your integrity takes you to him recognizes it's a slip and calls on strength and makes a change puts off the old puts on the new and you keep growing in him it's not about perfection it's not about passing and failing it's about growing in him you get it so you're walking through your day and boom you slip you run to God thankful thankful cuz you slip no thankful that there's light in your life and truth and you see things for what they really are now and you run to him and you say thank you God you're doing such a work in me my buddy Todd called me early on he early on he was just baptized a couple weeks and I called me crying said he was using crack and he was crying I said okay I said man thanks for calling and being open with me let me tell you who you are see brother Heaney delivered know he needs to know who he is the only reason using crack he doesn't know who he is the only reason a man's bound in pornography he doesn't know who he is he's still feeding his flesh at the expense of people people exploited people deceived and consumed finding false identity through the whole arena and you're feeding the whole process and feeding your own fantasy and flesh it's just a person that doesn't know who they are it's impossible to be bound in that if you know who you are it's not this a spirit of addiction all the time it's a lack of identity it's a lack of fullness so you're feeding something trying to find fulfillment to become something that only Jesus can make you be come on you're complete in Christ there's no way to know who you are apart from him it was made it was set up that way you can't get mad at that you got to be blessed by that because he wants to live in you and let you enjoy all that he is forever what the only reason you could be mad at that is because man fell and you were trained by a lion you have your own willfulness it's the only reason man can debate and have such heated discussions about God oh it is so finite it's ridiculous one day we will realize how foolish that all was the little peanut mind of man that has the capacity when Holy Spirit fills it to be amazing but apart from God it's a peanut brain apart from God and we shouldn't hear discussion in Hoschton in theology in God and this and that we think we got it all figured out but people say well God ditional God that and yeah but you can't tell me God and they're there and it's like ha the only reason you could be mad at God is because of the fall of man the wisdom of the world it's ludicrous to be mad at God he sent his son why we were lost in sinners Christian say well yeah but he knew he's gonna eat that tree why'd he put it in the garden the only reason you can think that way is because of sin didn't even be able to think that way it's the human reasoning of them people said well God gave us you mean there's seminaries out there that teach their students don't let anybody infringe on your right to reason I have news for you God didn't make you that way you became that way he never gave you the ability to talk yourself out of him he didn't create Adam with the ability to judge gotta be mad at God he followed the wrong voice look Eve was deceived she ate the tree and she gave it to her husband God came and said there were a woman her to Adam he said what did you is a woman you gave me she gave me to eat and then he said woman what's this you did and she said it was the devil he made me do it that's how your Bible is and they said because you've done this and he curses the snake and he tells the woman what's going to come upon her because of this and he tells the man but when he said to the man here's what he said because you heeded the voice of the woman instead of me what's happening here Satan comes in the picture another voice another voice all they know is the voice of God all they know is the fellowship of the father this voice comes it's called the way that seems right to a man she gets deceived gets in agreement with that voice eat takes on the nature of that voice and then she became the evangelistic voice for that voice to her husband and Adam heeded her instead of God think about it Satan came immediately to take what was made in the image of God for the glory of God to pervert it and make it in His image and multiply it so she was the first disciple of the lie and she conveyed it and imparted it to her husband and he thought about it and the same thing that happened to her he said who yeah and people have all their stories I think you know he just looked and saw her and oh my god and he just ate the treated I hear some crazy stuff out there no it's simple it's him trying to reproduce himself after his own kind and it's God reproducing himself after his own kind it's the first law seed time and harvest time this is amazing to me so what happened to Adam he heeded the voice of his wife now come on how many times have we heeded the voice of feelings human emotions human opinion friendships and frustrations and we talk can call for counsel and sometimes we call for 6-8 people and run the same story by them all and never spend time in the love of God receiving his wisdom and talking to Holy Spirit come on I'm being straight now I'm not being judgmental I'm not saying it's you I'm saying it happens are you guys with me listen we I'm calling in to the stewardship of your hearts man you're the steward of your heart you're going to answer for you you'll never be able to stand before God on that day and say you you know you know how would oh you're looking into his eyes and the things up now it's up man you're looking into the light of his glory and all things are revealed and your I would have got out of obeyed out of strength if it wasn't for my spouse you only be able to think that you already know that's not cool that's deception so why would you let it work now Oh Oh God you know how to circulate you know I prayed to you all that time why'd you let me get that job you don't know people ya know if you're gonna go oops and then fall in his mercy and he'll probably come and dry every tear and he's just amazing I don't want that I won't leave a legacy I want to mark your heart if I'm personal with you if I have an everyday opportunity with you which which you have with one another you don't have that with me I just come for a weekend but if I have an everyday opportunity with you I want my life for the sake of the elect to endure all things and leave a mark in your heart of truth and integrity so that in your weakest moments and in your trials you have that to spring off of you have that as fuel you have as an example and it cuts away all the excuses and all sudden you can't say yeah but so and so because God will bring up so and so and it'll be your life leaving an impression when my wife went into identity crisis I lost her for about six years or it was like I had a wife but I didn't have a wife it was like you know them terms they you you know married but single stuff she pulled away was introverted and was dreading the day she was born she said she should be better if she would die because she's awake to everybody around her she has no value it was incredible I'm traveling preaching while I was pastoring at the time preaching identity and who we are in Christ and how much God loves us and my very wife in my own house I had no voice to minister to her because she believed one lie it wasn't demonic spirit possessing her it was a stronghold that she mused on long enough to where it went and she believed it and I'd give her all the answers and she'd look at me blank and stare at me and say well you're supposed to tell me that it's the right answer it doesn't mean it's true for me and it felt like there was no way I could reach her she stopped coming to church people would call her out of concern and she'd buy the phones ringing they're leaving a message she would say well they're just calling me because they know I'm so messed up and it was like I had no ko Yoon Yin with my own one flesh wife for a lot of years and there's no way you ever knew and saw that in me I grew and flourished and what I preached like you can't imagine why was the last thing that woman needs at this point is a frustrated husband that's seeking his own and calling for help in prayer and saying he's wore out and weary and tired and she needs to change and she don't change soon I don't know if I could when I look at her she needs Jesus now more than she's ever needed him in her life and he's in me so he's coming and she's going to get him because I am not alive for her to meet my needs my needs are met in him I'm not alive for her to love me I told her I love you and that's all love ever says I love you are you getting this because in the natural and in some of our counseling circles I got a whole lot of reasons to not be okay I don't have one reason to not be okay he's in me and I've already won she doesn't owe me anything I heard nothing but to love so she came out of that years later walked God walked her out I don't can't get in a story on the Sunday morning we got restored years later she got just touched by God in the bathroom I got touched by God at work seven weeks later she got touched forgot better just beautiful story of redemption she's on the floor in a fetal position crying because Jesus is standing in the bathroom she had pumped her fist at him because she got run dry in our marriage before I was saved and and she sees pumping her fist at God and she says I'm done with you two you've left me go through all this hell and you left me go through all this suffering you have done nothing for me you haven't answered my prayer she said I pump my fist at God and walked out of the round when God revealed who he was in the bathroom and changed her and touched her she was on the floor he was hovering over her and he said yes Kim you did pray for 13 years for your husband but he said Kim you bound my hands from answering your prayer because you only prayed because of your pain and your hurt you were reduced to another hurting wife he said you never prayed because the love for your husband our mercy from my heart and she said I'd and I couldn't she said he said Kim I couldn't answer your prayer because I can't empower that motive in you because it's not me it's not love and she's just whoo she comes running to me she's got every reason in the natural we'd have made an amazing entertaining talk show she's got every reason to be hostile me and mad and live with a raised brow waiting for me to try to make up for everything I've ever done wrong which is impossible I want to say I'm sorry because I'm changed I want to say I'm sorry and when she came out in the yard to me after she had this encounter she's crying and guess what she was saying under her breath I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm so sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry she's crying uncontrollably sorry I'm sorry I was freaking me out I didn't want her to be sorry I'm sorry but it taught me something when the gospel comes on you in a personal individual way it takes your eyes off of everything else but you and you take responsible for the value of your life the destiny of your life and the accountability of your own heart and all of a sudden you don't have the ability to shift it on anything or anyone and I was freaked out I said Kim why you saying you're sorry you should be sorry I was the one with the story not now I'm bawling I said you know it was a must fast man it was his cry tears flower and she said no I'm sorry cuz we will not pray for for 10 years and when it finally happened I was too bitter to receive it and I fought against God all this time and she said now wait for me cause I lost you I just paid cuz she's got so my wedding Valtor was this yo me nothing in this marriage but to receive the love of God from me because we were in the yard I didn't know this was going to happen and we were just blubbering messes and I said can I renew our wedding vows she said huh I want to renew a seven weeks old the look as long as I drove I said you owe me nothing in this marriage but to receive the love of God for me and as long as I draw breath from this earth I will serve you in his unfailing love and she said okay so years go by and she falls into the identity crisis and now she's not receiving the love of God through me but guess what I said as long as I draw breath I'll serve you in the love of God unless of course you mean an identity crisis and start mistreating me hello it's not time to change places it's not time to get a new model it's not time to dump her and move on it's time to follow Jesus and lay down my life for her salvation now if you've already done that in your life don't get condemned by what I said just let your heart be shifted and make sure you're never positioned to live that way again and that mercy cover you you hear me because if you don't deal with that it'll be your legacy in Scenario and you'll have it justified said well I'm having trouble finding the right one maybe you're looking the wrong place come on guys so what happened to my wife when we pulled out of this she started walking out of this right before it happened she she could have died that the doctor called me and said it was serious she was in a coma she was on life support she had she's her body she's had a violent out-of-the-blue seizure they didn't call it epilepsy it was just they couldn't even really her body just blew up man she had brain damage and she was a life support and she was in a coma and Jesus woke her up out of the coma and the first EEG had no brain damage which is that doesn't happen it can't happen you have to have residuals you have to have effect you have to she was awake all night doctor cried held me in ICU talked to me about faith he cried and I just held him and honored him and thanked him for everything he said we didn't do that I said I get it I but you did a lot for he said no you don't ask it's listening thank you for who you are and what you do anyway it was just it was beautiful but I walked into the room on my wife and this is what I said to my wife she said hey I said hey honey she said she just come out of a coma I said she had never looked more beautiful to me she's destiny she yes now you just believe in lies it doesn't make her bad girl she was deceived she yawned and I cried I thought you're so sweetie she said that her hair's just all sticky and smashed and she's like just come out of a coma and she's like hey I said oh hey beautiful she said yeah okay baby I said oh maybe you don't see what I see you know and she goes you know it's just she said what happened to me I said well you had a violent seizure that's what these sadness yeah you weren't alive she was like why I said yeah they were really concerned they said they thought you had this in your spinal fluid they said you could very well die and they were very concerned and she went her eyes just got big because she's awake and she's fine that she went you held on to me you didn't let me go honey you ache or nowhere I'm an amazing husband I said and I love you and she went and I was said in the lie the stronghold went because she realized what she realized he doesn't believe anything that I've been believing all these years and he had a chance to let me slip away cuz she kept saying it'd be better if I would go it would release you you could be free and run with all your heart I feel like a dead weight to you and I'd say sweetie if you feel that way you're no you're not that way to me at all but if you feel that way do something in your heart get close to Jesus to change that but I'm telling you you're not a burden to me I love you and then when she was in the position to die can I just tell you the strong story on this I don't know how I get on this my blowing this up too bad two months for two months before the seizure a voice would come to me every time I went to prayer every time I walked in my bedroom to pray a voice came and said I'm gonna take your wife it'll be better that way she hasn't changed she's not changing she'll be fine and you'll be a peace trust me it'll all be well generally books on bookshelves how God told me my spouse would die in six months and then they died you know why they have peace because they believe it was God but guess what the voice did took away their sword in their armor I heard that voice for two months almost daily and when she went into the seizure I was actually in the hospital I took her there because I knew something was really wrong she didn't know who she was where she was and I'm not against hospitals I'm not too big to take her to the emergency room I prayed and it just something wasn't and I just thought you know this is I'm a little more I'm different I'm a little more stubborn you have a hard time getting me anywhere huh just the Jesus guy I'm not even afraid to die so don't think too deep on that but it's my wife I won't I won't hold out on and then I'm not ashamed of going to a doctor I took her to the hospital and while I was there she had the violent seizure and she was crashing they had bumper guards in the bed she was in the seizure for one hour one hour they gave her two different meds to pull her out and she was in a violent one for one hour growling like an animal and this voice came to me and said this is what I've been preparing you for it's gonna be okay you'll be at peace and I'm looking at her she looked like an animal in a cage she's growling and she's crashing and he said it's okay she's just eating the fruit of her lips her belly's full of the fruit of her lips the words you've spoken have come upon her but I'll receive her and it'll be okay it's talking like it's Jesus and in my heart I said Lord I haven't confronted this voice I haven't addressed you on and I've just listened and I prayed you didn't salt you all this time but this sounds like when you talk to me but it sure doesn't sound like what you say and I need to hear your voice in my heart I said it in a quiet so this thing doesn't even know I'm communing with God and I said I need to hear your voice right now and my best friend my best friend in the whole world spoke real soft and sweet down in my belly and he said mercy old enough to-- they told me to get out of the room you shouldn't be in here this is too extreme we need to get I said you ain't moving me girls I'm fine she needs me here and none of this ain't shaking me it's alright we're good and thrashing she said now here mercy look up tears are pouring on my face in the biggest smile I'm like you foul lying familiar spirit trying to get me to put my sword away take off my belt take off our righteousness and submit to some line then call God's sovereign and he's making choices when he gave me the kingdom and gave me the power of his word the authority of his name you lion evil spirit just because you hear a voice doesn't mean it's Jesus I backed out of that room I said ladies thanks for taking care of my girl she's going to be fine I won't go see my kids so they're not worried let him know everything's fine I'll be back in a little I walked out the hospital while a wife was in the middle of a violent seizure why it's over we already won so I drove home and told the kids what was going on but don't you fret it's all right Mama's gonna be fine so my fourteen-year-old you're not taking off school walk around depressed and living like you got a mom that's sick you're going to school and you're gonna be fine cuz you're a man of God I didn't know he was testing drugs in the meantime and he was messing around he was 14 and he was messing around and he's so unprepared for this you better be prepared when life hit that ain't the time to try to build a house you ought to have one bill it's amazing how we make the mad press into God once war strikes you better be ready when there ain't no war on the horizon if we waited the train for battle to a war came of course we'd lose you train in him now my daughter was making terrible decisions in her life at the moment and she has nothing to give her mother she's 18 almost 19 and she has nothing to give her mother because she's backslidden and she's in condemnation come on did you hear what I just said my son's behind the scenes testing drugs live in rebellious my daughter is making bad decisions my wife is an identity crisis well it looks like I can't Stuart my home it looks like I'm a bad leader it looks like I'm terrible I'm not a condemned man I understand people make choices and there's things that are deceiving folks I didn't let where they weren't decide where I was I let who Jesus is determine that so I have the ability to love them through it all and never look back and regret and wish it was different the passion you see in me is because of these stories because I don't have a doctrine I have a relationship I don't have Shadrach Meshach and Abednego story he is lord over the fire prophecy what is your fire to us okay no new dads for you in the matter so we've been in and prayed over my wife she woke up about an hour and a half later and she closed her eyes and that night she woke up and stayed awake the rest of the time if I delet where my son my daughter and my wife wasn't I wouldn't have been ready for one of the most critical wars of my life if I'd have been taking their lives personal I wouldn't it took Jesus personal and I wouldn't be empowered to be strong in a time to be strong and I'd have probably had to call somebody to come stand in the gap and hope it worked you have the honor of being ready a wise man hears and does what he hears yeah and when the storm comes do you hear the delay you get to hear and become the storms come in to the wise and the foolish the storms not coming because you opened a door you could but it's not always because you opened the door what's going on work out trying to teach me once the devil do and why is God allowing it when I stuff we get ourselves into him look the storms coming to the wise and the foolish in fact the words coming for the words sake so then a self-centered person says well then I don't want to get in the word because I don't want trouble you already got trouble because you don't want to get into work are you guys okay I'm Way late oh I gotta catch a plane here soon listen I didn't even read the works of the flesh in the spirit you get the point you can read the list on your own time here's what I'm calling you to this morning as a friend not preaching to you I'm crying my heart out you have the stewardship of your heart people to jump in and colabor with the kingdom of God as a son not a servant you have the stewardship of your heart to take accountability your responsibility for your own life actions words and don't ever let where somebody's not determine where you're at and don't let what they don't see define what you do see let him be the light of your life so you can cast light into those situations don't you try to sell me Jesus or your own conscience from this day forth that you're not where you should be because of other things he is the Lord not those things and you have access to him and a write to him so take privilege and opportunity to begin to speak to him every day about your convictions about your heart don't build on what's wrong with you build on what's becoming right in you and you thank God they have a sign in their kitchen little poster thing it says every day always always always be thankful for something you guys okay listen we're this is a great thing we're a part of and we're greatly privileged people we don't it's not that we know God anything we've been his from the beginning he's reclaimed us through his blood so that's be his children that slit as a family you get what I'm saying it's not well I better do this or thought it'll be mad I better not do this we got to be mad now I do this because I see his love and his love singing and nothing can ever go wrong there's possible it's possible to have total peace among one another in the house of God it takes one to make peace it takes two to have an issue as much as it depends on you Romans 12 be a peace with all men and don't you seek to avenge yourself for vengeance is mine saith the Lord you get it I just feel done I don't you can take over I just it's a teaching morning for me I just listen I can't explain to you how passionate and sober I feel in my heart I think it's an honor to hear things like this from the Lord because he's giving us that entrusting of that stewardship and he's saying look guys I know you can live this way because I'm with you I'm saying will you do you want to to get it so god bless you thank you for the weekend I was very honored to be here with you guys

Channel: Dan Mohler - Power and Identity

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Published: Fri Mar 27 2015